bug jar

Eight years ago Eleanor Friedberger played to a raucous sold out crowd at the Bug Jar with her previous band, The Fiery Furnaces. A lot has changed in eight years. The Fiery Furnaces have taken an extended and possibly permanent break.…

Nashville's All Them Witches played an hour-long set at The Bug Jar in Rochester that got started with a couple songs off their latest release, Dying Surfer Meets His Maker. Lead vocalist Charles Michael Parks, Jr. played the opening…

Amidst a seemingly non-stop tour, Nashville 4-piece psych rockers All Them Witches make a stop at Rochester's Bug Jar on Saturday night. The band is touring in support of Dying Surfer Meets His Maker, released somewhat appropriately the day…

The band, seven strong, consumed the small stage at the Bug Jar. Colorful and wild patterns were projected onto the stage, painting them, their instruments and the white sheet they had taped up along the back wall. The sheet and the images…

There's a band named King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard coming to The Bug Jar. Weird -- but awesome, right? They're from Australia. Weird -- but awesome, right? Here is the cover from the latest US release, the appropriately titled,…

New Jersey's Screaming Females may have started as a punk rock band, but they currently are just a rock band. But not "just", they have distilled the mere essence of rock, consumed it, and ooze it out of their every being. The rhythm…

There’s something exciting about looking at equipment on an otherwise empty stage, waiting to be used. As soon as audience members rounded the corner into the backroom at Bug Jar on Friday, January 17th, they were greeted with BabaYaga’s…

Tallahassee strummed their tunes to an intimate Sunday night crowd at the Bug Jar in Rochester. Under dark lights the four-man band revealed their soulful sounds playing folk rock songs with an Americana twist.   Their haunting sounds kept…